Posted by Stephen Dunne in School of Business Blog on April 15, 2015
Stephen Dunne (henceforth SD): Can I ask you to recount, when you set out on the book, what you were trying to do and in relation to what body of work? WD: The main question I had, following on from my PhD, concerned competition and competitiveness as forms of justification, or as sources of […]
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Posted by Stephen Dunne in School of Business Blog on January 14, 2015
Lecturer in Social Theory and Consumption at the School, Stephen Dunne, attempts to renew a recent academic argument through a more accessible medium Social scientists engage in debates which matter to people other than themselves. Very often, however, those potentially publicly meaningful debates preside within academic journals which regularly assume a lot of terminological familiarity and disposable […]
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